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dbus-daemon — The D-Bus message daemon, allowing multiple programs to exchange messages. More information: <https:

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Problem

How to use the dbus-daemon command: The D-Bus message daemon, allowing multiple programs to exchange messages. More information: <https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html>.

Solution

dbus-daemon — The D-Bus message daemon, allowing multiple programs to exchange messages. More information: <https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html>.

Run the daemon with a configuration file:

dbus-daemon --config-file {{path/to/file}}

Run the daemon with the standard per-login-session message bus configuration:

dbus-daemon --session

Run the daemon with the standard systemwide message bus configuration:

dbus-daemon --system

Set the address to listen on and override the configuration value for it:

dbus-daemon --address {{address}}

Output the process ID to stdout:

dbus-daemon --print-pid

Force the message bus to write to the system log for messages:

dbus-daemon --syslog

Code Snippets

Run the daemon with a configuration file

dbus-daemon --config-file {{path/to/file}}

Run the daemon with the standard per-login-session message bus configuration

dbus-daemon --session

Run the daemon with the standard systemwide message bus configuration

dbus-daemon --system

Set the address to listen on and override the configuration value for it

dbus-daemon --address {{address}}

Output the process ID to `stdout`

dbus-daemon --print-pid

Context

tldr-pages: linux/dbus-daemon

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